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globalize Definition

glob·al·ize (glōbəl īz′)

transitive verb -·ized′, -·iz′·ing

to make global; esp., to organize or establish worldwide

globalize Usage Examples

Object

  • capitalism: History has, perhaps, come to an end with the worldwide reach of a globalized free market capitalism.
  • economy: An Irish friend of mine said to me once that with the globalized economy, national sovereignty was now a joke.
  • world: Even in a globalizing world, military bonds where they exist underlie all others.
  • society: Indeed, the European Union is very model of the trans-national, globalized, post-industrial societies that should be the focus of political sociology.
  • market: Do you mean you are against private property, or just against a globalized free market?
  • industry: Mexico is a major source of cheap parts and labor for the globalized electronics industry.

Modifying Another Word

  • increasingly: The 2003 report addresses the growing problems presented by slums in an increasingly globalized world.
  • rapidly: The coming years will show a rapidly globalizing world.
  • fully: According to this view a fully globalized economy dominated by transnational corporations is destiny; it is evolution; it is inevitable.
  • truly: A truly globalized art history will take perhaps a century ( or more ) to achieve - we have to start somewhere!